The making of Black Detroit in the age of Henry Ford
By: Beth Tompkins Bates
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780807835647
Subjects: Social conditions; Race relations; African Americans; Internal Migration; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: With the wind at their backs : migration to Detroit; title: Henry Ford ushers in a new era for Black workers; title: The politics of inclusion and the construction of a new Detroit; title: Drawing the color line in housing, 1915-1930; title: The politics of unemployment in depression-era Detroit, 1927-1931; title: Henry Ford at a crossroads : Inkster and the Ford Hunger March; title: Behind the mask of civility: Black politics in Detroit, 1932-1935; title: Charting a new course for Black workers; title: Black workers change tactics, 1937-1941.